Brookman / Robinson Creating Playful First Encounters with the Pre-Modern Past

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80270-142-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 156 Seiten

This collection explores playful ways of fostering creative engagements with the medieval and early modern past and its own literary and artistic products, especially among those new to their study. As scholars and teachers of early English, the contributors cover literary and cultural material from a range of genres within the Old English, Middle English, Tudor, and Stuart periods and collectively delve into a shared interest in facilitating what we might loosely define as “newcomer” or “non-specialist” encounters with the past: initial, exploratory contact in which prior knowledge cannot be assumed, whether involving creative professionals, experts from other disciplines, undergraduate and school students, or members of the public. Considering artworks and installation, theatre and performance and curation practices, case studies offer practice-based examples of learning and engagement which proceed primarily through creative and playful approaches. The case studies are arranged into two broad groups: those which work through performance and theatrical play of various kinds, and those which work through playful practices of production and making. All share a perspective of irreverence, of vivid immersion, and of the possibilities of conjuring with the past.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brookman, Helen

Robinson, Olivia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: “Juniper and Mare’s Cheese,” by Mark Haddon Introduction, by Helen Brookman and Liv Robinson Part 1: Play through Performance Chapter 1: “Gamifying the Canterbury Tales 1: Adopt-a-Pilgrim, Harry Bailley’s Game, and an RPG Canterbury Tales”, by Daniel T. Kline Chapter 2. “Swiss Shakespeare: Creative Translation as Research and Appropriation”, by Elisabeth Dutton Chapter 3. “Creating Medieval Drama: Student Actors, Public Audiences and Middle English Plays”, by Olivia Robinson Chapter 4. “Playing Shakespeare in the Elementary Classroom”, by Clayton Stromberger Part 2: Play through Production Chapter 5. “‘Arthurian Transformations’: Undergraduate Students Curating a Digital Exhibition in an Interdisciplinary Medievalism Module,” by Helen Brookman Chapter 6. “‘Create the Rest”: Learning through Doing in Shakespearean Education”, by Sheila Cavanagh Chapter 7. “Formation from ‘Fragments’: Learning about Twelfth-Century Liturgy through Creative Engagement with Evidence”, by Matthew Cheung Salisbury Chapter 8. “Redesigning the Medieval Book”, by Daniel Wakelin Afterword: “No Limits”, by David Clark

Über Autor(innen)

Brookman Helen :

Helen Brookman is Professor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Education at King’s College London and Vice-Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Her interests lie in creative and interdisciplinary pedagogies and feminist critical and historical studies of the Humanities.Robinson Olivia :

Olivia (Liv) Robinson is Lecturer in Late Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Contest, Translation and the Chaucerian Text, and publishes on the theatre of medieval nuns.